Hybrid Senior Director of Engineering Excellence, Reliability

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About the role

  • Lead initiatives to improve developer productivity across the organization
  • Develop and execute engineering maturity models that benchmark teams and guide them through improvements in automation, observability, incident response, test strategy, and deployment readiness
  • Identify systemic bottlenecks and lead cross-functional efforts to remove them, driving measurable gains in engineering velocity and quality
  • Collaborate with engineering leadership to embed productivity metrics and maturity targets into quarterly planning cycles
  • Champion Site Reliability Engineering principles across the organization—implementing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to manage system reliability effectively
  • Guide Systems Engineering best practices across scalability, observability, automation, and cost optimization
  • Define, own, and deliver the strategy and roadmap for multiple COEs: Product SRE, Systems Engineering, DevSecOps, Release Engineering, and Engineering Metrics
  • Build and lead high-performing teams that deliver reliable, scalable, and secure engineering platforms and practices
  • Act as a transformation agent—establishing execution frameworks that scale across business units and geographies
  • Establish and standardize engineering performance metrics, including but not limited to DORA metrics, MTTR, Team & Developer Productivity
  • Drive adoption of metrics across teams to reinforce accountability, continuous improvement, and transparency
  • Oversee the development and scaling of CI/CD pipelines using Harness that are secure, automated, and optimized for frequent and stable deployments
  • Embed DevSecOps principles into every stage of the SDLC
  • Lead and mature Release Engineering practices to ensure release integrity, rollback safety, and compliance
  • Lead the governance of AI/ML tooling in software development, ensuring compliance, risk mitigation, and alignment with enterprise strategy

Requirements

  • 12+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience
  • Proven track record in delivering engineering productivity, tooling, or platform transformation initiatives with measurable results
  • Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, CI/CD, observability, automation, and modern DevOps/SRE practices
  • Demonstrated success building and operationalizing technical governance and engineering maturity frameworks
  • Strong strategic mindset combined with tactical execution skills; thrives in high-change, high-growth environments
  • Exceptional communicator with the ability to influence across engineering, product, EIT and executive teams

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • 401K Matching Program
  • Tuition Reimbursement

Job title

Senior Director of Engineering Excellence, Reliability

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$230,000 - $300,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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